Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To understand whats happening in todays complex software ecosystems, you need comprehensive telemetry data to make it all observable. With so many types of technologies in software stacks around the globe, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the de facto standard for gathering telemetry data. But, generating telemetry data is the easy part.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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DZone

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Data is being generated from various sources, including electronic devices, machines, and social media, across all industries. A significant evolution is taking place in the way data is organized for further analysis. However, unless it is processed and stored effectively, it holds little value.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In this article, we’ll dive deep into the concept of database sharding, a critical technique for scaling databases to handle large volumes of data and high levels of traffic. We’ll start by defining what sharding is and why it’s essential for modern, high-performance databases.

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DZone

MAY 26, 2023

Therefore, I found it important to write a piece based on my understanding of time series data versus relational data as someone with a unique understanding of both.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In this article, I want to share my knowledge and opinion about the data types that are often used as an identifier. These are measurements of search speed by key and data types for the key on the database side. I will use a PostgreSQL database and a demo Java service to compare query speeds.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Maintaining optimal application performance is crucial for businesses, and fast databases are vital in achieving this goal. For an effective approach to database performance, it’s crucial to have a comprehensive overview of all databases, including server-side DBs.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In part 2, we’ll show you how to retrieve business data from a database, analyze that data using dashboards and ad hoc queries, and then use a Davis analyzer to predict metric behavior and detect behavioral anomalies. However, as we highlighted previously, business data can be significantly more complex than simple metrics.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Running Databases efficiently is crucial for business success Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that result in data loss or downtime. This makes them ideal for managing structured data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

Financial data engineering in SAS involves the management, processing, and analysis of financial data using the various tools and techniques provided by the SAS software suite. Here are some key aspects of financial data engineering in SAS: 1.

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2025

When we are working with a database, optimization is crucial and key in terms of application performance and efficiency. Selection of Right Partition Key Choosing an appropriate partition key is vital for distributed databases like Cosmos DB.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We often dwell on the technical aspects of database selection, focusing on performance metrics , storage capacity, and querying capabilities. Yet, the impact of choosing the right NoSQL database goes beyond these parameters; it affects your business outcomes. How do these metrics translate into real-world value for your business?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As applications grow in complexity and user base, the demands on their underlying databases increase significantly. Efficient database scaling becomes crucial to maintain performance, ensure reliability, and manage large volumes of data. This cheatsheet provides an overview of essential techniques for database scaling.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

While applications are built using a variety of technologies and frameworks, there is one thing they usually have in common: the data they work with must be stored in databases. Now, Dynatrace has gone a step further and expanded its coverage and intelligent observability into the next layer: database infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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DZone

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When creating applications that store and analyze large amounts of data, such as time series, log data, or event-storing ones, developing a good and future-proof data model can be a difficult task. Choosing the right data types in PostgreSQL can significantly impact your database's performance and efficiency.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

However, lurking beneath the surface lies a complex web of data storage and retrieval. When database problems arise, they can disrupt even the most well-crafted applications. That's why knowing how to debug mobile app database problems and optimize data storage performance is essential for developers seeking excellence.

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DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM trees) are a powerful data structure widely used in modern databases to efficiently handle write-heavy workloads. They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Database sharding is a powerful technique employed to manage large databases more effectively. It involves partitioning a large database into smaller, more manageable parts, known as shards. The above diagram presents a visual representation of a sharded database.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2025

A graphical user interface (GUI) helps simplify how you interact with your MySQL databases. Whether youre a developer, database administrator, or data analyst, a good GUI can make everyday tasks faster, clearer, and less error-prone. Thats where MySQL GUIs come in.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Over time as new key-value databases were introduced and service owners launched new use cases, we encountered numerous challenges with datastore misuse.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh?—?A A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A After evaluating the options , the team has decided to create Data Mesh as our next generation data pipeline solution.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Horizontally scalable data stores like Elasticsearch , Cassandra , and CockroachDB distribute their data across multiple nodes using techniques like consistent hashing. As nodes are added or removed, the data is reshuffled to ensure that the load is spread evenly across the new set of nodes.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Understanding the structures within a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is critical to optimizing performance and managing data effectively. Here's a breakdown of the concepts with examples. RDBMS Structures 1.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

It is an open standard format which organizes data into key/value pairs and arrays detailed in RFC 7159. JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. You can also check out our Working with JSON Data in PostgreSQL vs. JSONB Patterns & Antipatterns.

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DZone

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the era of the Internet of Things ( IoT) , the continuous influx of spatial and temporal data from interconnected devices has given rise to a vast and intricate landscape, demanding a sophisticated approach to database management.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

These media focused machine learning algorithms as well as other teams generate a lot of data from the media files, which we described in our previous blog , are stored as annotations in Marken. There are many naive solutions possible for this problem for example: Write different runs in different databases. in a video file.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Data volume explosion in multicloud environments poses log issues.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

They frequently articulate the need for real-time visibility into business data to support agile business decisions. But existing business intelligence (BI) tools often lack the broad context, ease of data access, and real-time insights needed to understand and improve customer experience and complex business processes.

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Database Metrics Retail Analytics 246

DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Kafka’s ability to handle large volumes of real-time market data makes it a core infrastructure component for trading, risk management, and fraud detection. Financial institutions use Kafka to stream data from market data feeds, transaction data, and other external sources to drive decisions.

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DZone

JULY 4, 2024

A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to modernize.

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DZone

APRIL 15, 2022

Recently, I faced an issue related to a very high load on the database layer. The database was having too many connections in parallel. I had to review my application’s database connection pool (DBCP) properties very closely.

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DZone

AUGUST 1, 2024

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Database Systems: Modernization for Data-Driven Architectures. Time series data has become an essential part of data collection in various fields due to its ability to capture trends, patterns, and anomalies.

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DZone

APRIL 11, 2023

Data processing in the cloud has become increasingly popular due to its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. This article will explore how these technologies can be used together to create an optimized data pipeline for data processing in the cloud.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a simple declarative programming language utilized by various technology and business professionals to extract and transform data. To conclude, GUIs are a vital addition to ease the lives of database users and developers.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As cloud applications have become the norm, the databases that power these applications are now typically run as managed services by cloud providers. Optimize database performance. Small changes in a database can have an enormous impact on overall application performance. One place to rule them all.

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